Desperate magic the moral economy of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Russia / Valerie Kivelson.
| Author/creator | Kivelson, Valerie A. |
| Other author | American Council of Learned Societies. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2013. |
| Description | xviii, 349 pages [16] colored plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from ACLS Humanities E-Book |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Witchcraft historiography : Russia's divergence -- "Report on this matter to us in Moscow, fully and in truth" : documentation and procedure -- Muscovite prosaic magic and the devil's pale shadow -- Love, sex, and hierarchy : the role of gender in witchcraft accusations -- Undivided spheres : gender and idioms of magic -- "To treat me kindly" : negotiating excess in Muscovite hierarchical relations -- Trials, justice and the logic of torture -- Witchcraft, heresy, treason, rebellion: defining Muscovy's most heinous crimes. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-338) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013016811 |
| ISBN | 9780801451461 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780801479168 (pbk. : alk. paper) |